---- Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote: > > Bill Dodge wrote: > > Thanks to all - still have a lot to learn about this new operating system. > > I guess someday it will be as automatic as VM and VSE but it is a struggle > > sometimes. > > > Bill, you're doing something strange. For some reasons, replies to your > messages are set to go to you whereas they should be going to the list. > We'd like you to stick around, but perhaps you could examine your settings. > > > I was going to say that you should be get yourself a book with a title > similar to "Linux unleashed" and with a DVD with Fedora Core (preferably > FC 6) attached and a spare peecee, and work your way through it. > > There's a lot of special stuff wrt mainframes, but basically Linux is > Linux, and understanding Linux on a peecee will help heaps. > > I recommend FC6* to you because RHEL 5 is based on it. If you wanted to > learn SLES 10 then OpenSUSE 10 would be the go (but books might be > harder to find). > > A used PC would do fine, but you would need 512 Mbytes of RAM. If you > have that much RAM, the CPU will be fine:-0 > > > At a pinch you might be able to run it under Windows in MS Virtual PC. > > Dual booting works well, but I generally find I'm running Linux when I'd > like to run Windows, and I don't want to reboot. > > > If you want to run zlinux on your peecee, you can. Download Hercules. > > * CentOS has rebuilds of RHEL, yours for the downloading. CentOS 5 is > available, but not yet for Z. Its advantage over FC6 is its projected > life - the same as RHEL 5. > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > I noticed that the replies were coming directly to me and not the list. I don't have that proble with VSE-L, IBMMAIN, or IBMVM so they must override the supplied reply to. I need to remember to fix the reply lto on LINUX-390. My apologies to the list it should be corrected now. -- Bill Dodge email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (703)627-2455
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